User Orders CPU Cooler, But Receives Ryzen 7 5800X3D Instead; Complains CPU Cooler Was Still Missing

How would you feel getting scammed this way? I mean, you won't complain if this happened to you.

This might be one of the luckiest guys right now who was simply ordering a CPU cooler for one of his rigs. The Redditor u/Joccahontas says he ordered a $26 CPU cooler, but received something else instead. This isn't the first time we've heard such a story because retailers can occasionally make such mistakes. We have seen how sometimes retailers ship several units of the

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NVIDIA’s Optics Partners Crush CPO Delay Rumors, With Coherent’s Scale-Out Revenue Starting Late 2026

NVIDIA's partners on co-packaged optics, or CPO, have said that the deployment of the first server solutions remains on track.

Recently, there have been several rumors regarding the adoption of CPO in the data center ecosystem. As per the rumor mill, the adoption of CPO was said to be delayed for years, but during recent investor calls, both Lumentum and Coherent have stated that the production of CPOs remains on track.

According to Lumentum, the demand for ultra-high power CPO lasers is gaining momentum

A presentation slide from Lumentum titled 'Q4 FY26 Key Points' highlights significant year-over-year growth, record shipments, and strong revenue performance driven by the cloud and AI business.
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Gaming Laptop User Achieves A 15°C Reduction In CPU Temperatures Just By Changing The Desk Surface; No Repasting Or Undervolting Was Necessary

The constrained internal space of gaming laptops leaves little room for these machines to showcase impressive thermals, leaving users to research different mods while also experimenting with repasting and undervolting. However, an extremely useful tip was discovered by one user, claiming that he managed to reduce CPU temperatures by 15°C just by switching the desk surface on which the gaming laptop was being used.

Playing Cyberpunk 2077, which stresses both the CPU and GPU, Redditor “MentalReserve235” noticed that his gaming laptop’


Intel Razor Lake-AX resurrects cancelled Nova Lake-AX architecture, while Razor Lake-S jumps a full generation ahead

Intel's Razor Lake-AX and Razor Lake-S CPUs will feature different P-core and E-Core architectures to tackle different client segments.

Recently, there has been new information surrounding Intel's upcoming Razor Lake families. The AX family will target the "Halo" segment, combining lots of CPU cores with lots of GPU cores, while the standard lineups will aim at the desktop and mobile segments.

As per new details shared by Jaykihn on X, the Intel Razor Lake-AX lineup builds upon


HBM’s Manufacturing Complexities Mean General-Purpose DRAM Still The Primary Cash Cow For Companies Like Micron; Gross Margins Estimated To Reach 95% In 2027

Datacenters and GPUs will continue to rely on HBM for AI inference as it offers both capacity and bandwidth, but the latest data reveals that memory manufacturers like Micron will continue to benefit from general-purpose DRAM shipments when comparing gross margins. In fact, the latest research states that allocating more manufacturing capacity for HBM is actually hurting Micron’s business.

From 2025, data from UBS states that Micron’s gross margin for general-purpose DRAM increased from 44 percent to 50 percent, with the


Total War: WARHAMMER III Drops its Largest-Ever DLC on September 24, and it No Longer Requires the Base Game

Publisher SEGA and developer Creative Assembly have announced that Total War: WARHAMMER III - Lords of the End Times will launch on September 24 . This DLC is the largest in the series' decade-long history , introducing four new Legendary Lords inspired by the apocalyptic End Times into the expansive Immortal Empires campaign. Alongside them come a plethora of new battlefield units and lore-driven features, complemented by a transformative free update.

Each Legendary Lord offers a unique strategic gameplay experience rooted in Warhammer lore, according to Creative Assembly.

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Google Rushes Gemini 3.7 Flash Just Three Weeks After Gemini 3.6 Flash Largely Flopped, Halving Prices To Win Back Ground

Google seems to have had a wake up call after its ongoing travails with Gemini 3.5 Pro, and is now trying to rapidly gain the ground it lost by doubling down on its Flash-class models, as it seems to have done just today by debuting the Gemini 3.7 Flash, and that too merely three weeks after unveiling the Gemini 3.6 Flash.

Google claims that Gemini 3.7 Flash is its most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. The model is currently available through the


Netflix Shutters Oxenfree Studio Night School just Six Weeks after its Final Horror Game, Unhinged, Hit the Service

Following last year's layoffs , Netflix is shutting down Night School Studio , the developer behind the acclaimed supernatural thriller Oxenfree , just six weeks after the Californian studio released Unhinged , a short first-person horror game designed to stream on Netflix. Netflix is also planning to close Moonloot , the Helsinki-based studio it founded in 2022. The company is cutting jobs from its internal games team as part of the restructuring, although it has not disclosed exactly how many positions are affected.

Night School rose to

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Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine on PS5 Runs at 60FPS with Ray Tracing Enabled, a Studio First at Launch

Insomniac Games has just revealed new details about Marvel's Wolverine in an interview with IGN . For example, the game will be the studio's first title to run at 60 frames per second with ray tracing enabled even on the base PlayStation 5 console. Mike Fitzgerald , Head of Technology at Insomniac Games, stated:

We've always had these fidelity and performance modes, and then we always sort of last minute get the performance mode with ray tracing and like, ‘But this is pretty good…’

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Embracer Pins Darksiders 4 and the next Kingdom Come to April 2027/ March 2028, Giving Fans a Firm Release Window

In today's Q1 FY 2026/27 report , the Embracer Group confirmed that both Darksiders 4 and the next Kingdom Come game will be released in the next fiscal year (2027/28), which kicks off in April 2027 and ends in March 2028. That gives us a pretty clear release window for both games.

Darksiders 4 was announced in August 2025 to be in development at Gunfire Games , the studio that made

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